To the House of Representatives: I herewith transmit reports from the Secretary of the Treasury and Postmaster-General, with the accompanying papers, in compliance with the resolution of the House adopted December 23, 1858.
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The amendment does not seem necessary to secure any right either of the United States or of any American citizen claiming under them.
There is but one mode left of settling the dispute, and that is by submitting it to the arbitration of some friendly and impartial power.
Their letter to him urging this delay bears date January 15, and was the commencement of a correspondence.
It must be allowed that these precedents, so numerous and so long continued, are entitled to great respect, since we can scarcely suppose that the wise and eminent men by whom they were made could have been mistaken on a point which was…
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